Garment



J. M. COHEN May 22, 1934.

GARMENT Filed Feb. 24, 1933 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS M COHE acter B designating Patented May 22, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in garments and more particularly it pertains to improvements in armhole constructions for coats, jackets and the like.

While the invention is adaptable to any type of garment having an armhole and a sleeve, it particularly lends itself to office coats and I have therefore chosen this type of garment for the illustration of my invention.

In the past, considerable difficulty has been experienced with office coats, due mainly to the type of material employed in their manufacture, tearing in the front panels closely adjacent the armhole seam.

It is an object of the present invention to improve the armhole construction of such garments, and so to construct such garments that the aforementioned tearing of the front panels adjacent the armhole will not result.

A feature of the invention resides in a novel form of armpit shield and in the novel use of such armpit shield as a reinforcing medium for that portion of the garment which in the ordinary construction of ofiice coats has no reinforcement.

A further feature of the invention resides in a novel form of armpit shield which in the present instance is of considerably larger size than armpit shields commonly employed.

Other objects of the invention will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood and by reference to the following specification and the accompanying drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved invention and its manner of attachment in a coat,

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view in elevation showing the inner portion of a coat,

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on an enlarged scale taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, and;

Figure 4 is a plan view of my new and improved armpit shield.

Referring to the drawing, the reference character A designates a coat, the reference charone of the front panels thereof. The armhole of the coat is designated C and the armpit shield is designated D.

By reference to Figure 4 it will be noted that the armpit shield D comprises a relatively large and forwardly extending lower portion 10, the same being shaped as to provide a tapering upper extension 11. The edge 12 of the armpit shield is the inner edge or that edge which coincides with the forward portion of the armhole C when the shield is positioned in the garment.

As indicated in Figure 2, the shield D is of greater length than the armpit shields heretofore employed and it extends from a point closely adjacent the side seam 15 of the panel B to a point 16 which point 16 is preferably located at the outer end of the shoulder seam 17 of the garment.

The shield D is so shaped that it extends well forward of the armhole as indicated at 20 in Figure 2 and as distinguished from armpit shields generally employed it is attached around its outer edge of the panel B by a line of stitching or the like 21.

By this construction the armpit shield is secured to the panel B of the coat throughout a line which is removed or remote from the armhole of the coat thus distributing the strains to which the armhole is subjected throughout the adjacent portions of the panel B of the garment thus reducing the tendency of the garment to tear at the forward portion of the armhole as almost invariably results in garments as ordinarily constructed.

In Figure 3 the sleeve of the garment is designated 25 and it is secured to the garment by lines of stitching 26 and 27, the line of stitching 27 also serving to secure a binding 28 about the inner edges of the sleeve of the garment. The line of stitching 26 heretofore mentioned also serves to secure the inner edge 12 of the shield D to the panel B of the garment as indicated in said figure.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the present invention provides a new and improved structure in garments which particularly lends itself to garments constructed of relatively light material such for example as office coats and the like. By the construction herein presented the rupturing of the panels which almost invariably occur in garments of this character is eliminated by reason of the fact that the shield in the present instance is carried well forward of the arm hole and is secured to the panel of the garment around its outer edge in such a manner that the strains to which this portion of the garment is put in use are so distributed as to accomplish the desired result.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and what it is desired to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

A coat including a front panel, an armhole partly formed by one edge of said panel and an armpit shield of substantially crescent form secured at both its edges to the inner face of the front panel and having its concave edge substantially coextensive with that portion of the armhole formed in the front panel, said shield having its greatest width offset forwardly from the vertical center line of the armhole and with a portion of its convex edge extending to a point adjacent the vertical center line of the front panel to reinforce the edge of the armhole against stresses exerted upon the panel from points forwardly and below the armhole.

JACK M. COHEN. 

